Curtain or drapery holder.



J. & M. WEBER. CURTAIN 0R DRAPERY HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED IULY 30,!917.

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JOHN "WEBER AND MARY WEBER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 14, 1919.

Application filed. July 30, 191?. Serial lqo; 183,421.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN WEBER and MARY WEBER, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain or Drapery Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides means for swinging a curtain or other drapery away from a window, doorway, or other place for any useful purpose.

When lace-curtains or the like cover a window-opening or portieres hang in a doorway, the circulation of air or draft is prevented, which in hot weather is objectionable. To overcome this, such draperies are sometimes tied in knots to leave an open space, but this is objectionable, because of creasing and mussing the draperies.

Lace-curtains at windows interfere with cleaning the glass or the woodwork.

When a window is open, the draperies blow out of it into rain or against dirty screens or the like.

Taking down draperies for the summer is objectionable, because they may just have been cleaned and, moreover, there may be no convenient place in a small apartment where they can be stored.

All these and other contingencies are taken care of by the present invention, which can be manufactured very cheaply, because of the simplicity of its construction, which, also, prevents its becoming out of order. It may be made of various materials, differlng in price and ornamentiveness, but is characteristically inexpensive, because made of few and light but strong parts.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and in which like numbers of reference denote like parts when ever they occur,

Figure l is a perspective view showing this invention in position on a window frame;

Fig. 2 is a detail of one of the attaching brackets;

Fig. 3 is an upside-down perspective view of an attaching-andlocking bracket; and

Fig. 4 is a detail showing means for holding drapery on one of the rods.

The curtains 1 or other drapery are suspended from the horiyon-tal cross-arms 2 of the rotatable holders, the; vertical parts3 of which are fastened by brackets l (shown in detail in Fig. 2) to the sides 5. of the window frame. The arms 2 lie parallel with the top cross-piece 6 of the window frame, and the curtains extend down as far as desired, being shown in the drawings as reaching the sill 7. The removable nuts 8 are threaded on the ends 9 of the cross-arms, being thus easily removable to allow the drapery to be slid on the arms 2, whereupon nuts 8 are replaced, as shown in Fig. 1, to hold the drapery from slipping off cross-arms 2.

One of the brackets 4: is located so as to grasp the vertical part 3 just below the bend where the cross-arm 2 branches therefrom. Cross-arms 2 and vertical members 3 are in pairs, each cross-arm and vertical member forming an integral whole, and having integral therewith a lock-member comprising a horizontal member 10 bent away from the said vertical member 3 and again bent to form the vertical projection 11 that enters one of the holes 12 in one or the other of the wings 13 of the lock-plate 14, which is provided with the attaching tongue 15, in which are a plurality of holes 16 for the passage of screws 17 for attachment to the window frame 5 adjacent to the sill 7 or at any other pointthat can be conveniently reached, as, for instance, that shown in the drawings.

The holes 12 in the outer wings 13 of plates 14 suffice to lock the cross-arms 2 and drapery borne thereby in the closed position shown in Fig. 1; but removal of the projections 11 from the holes in which they are seated in Fig. 1 allows rotation of the holders until cross-arms 2 occupy the position indicated-by dotted lines in Fig. 1 or any intermediate position. The holders can be locked in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 by inserting projections 11 in the outermost hole 12 in wings 13 or in an intermediate position by inserting such projection in the other hole in that wing. Of course, there may be more of these lookholes 12 than shown in the drawings if desired.

Bracket L is of particular construction, especially designed for the secure and cheap ski-l attachment of vertical rods 3. It is made from a blank, doubled on itself to form the parts 18, having the attaching flanges 19, through which holes 20 allow attachment to the frame 5 by screws 21.

- When bent to the form shown in Fig. 2, a cylindrical passage 22 is provided (larger in cross-section than the adjacent parts) at the hinge joint of the said bracket 4L for the passage therethrough of the rod 3, which is free to move therein, except as checked therein downwardly by cross-arm 2 and in the other direction by member 10.

It will be observed that all the parts can be made by machine.

Having thus described this invention, we hereby reserve the benefit of all changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it is evident that many minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of this invention.

We claim:

A curtain support comprising a right angular curtain supporting member, the horizontal leg of which is adapted to support a curtain in front of a window frame, the lower end of the vertical legs of said me1nher being bent to form crank bearings for the vertical leg of the member, and an angularly disposed bracket formed with openings to receive the free end of the crank to hold the right angular curtain supporting 1110111- ber in open or closed position.

In testimony whereof we hereunto uliix our signatures.

JOHN WEBER, MARY WEBER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

. Washington, I). G. 

